Hmm. Thanks girls. Ali, I was completley exhausted, so that's highly possible too. I lost all sense of time and I thought I had been there for a good 12 hours.


Is it possible that DH was very worried and interpreted your focus on labour and how much of your attention it was taking as a crisis (since he asked for an epidural on your behalf - seems very strange to me!)? So many men just don't know what to expect and the way labour looks can be so far from how it feels.

Did a midwife comment on your breathing?

Bx- That's possible. He was very worried- I think he asked for the epidural I was passed out and he assumed that meant I was in a hell of a lot of pain but literally couldn't speak for myself to ask for one, ykwim? And he assumed, being in that much pain, I'd want one (I didn't).

I really don't know if he misinterprated it... but he swears up and down it was not focused breathing, iykwim. I don't recall the mw saying anything (tbh, I don't remeber very much about that stage of labour at all- if I fell over the mw in the street, i wouldn't know her) but dh reckons that by that stage bubs was in distress, according to the foetal heart rate doovy thingy, so she was generally looking worried about everything and waiting for the ob to get there...